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THE African National Congress (ANC) yesterday emphatically said it had no intention of nationalising SA mines, saying no party leader would "make policy pronouncements" based on "sentiment" .
THE government has questioned the mining sector's commitment to transformation, and hit out at companies for using black people as "fronts" or "window-dressers" to meet mining-charter targets.
The government's delegation to the annual meeting of the Kimberley Process (the regulatory body tasked with ending the global trade in conflict diamonds) has argued there is insufficient evidence to support claims of human rights abuses at the Chiadzwa diamond fields, prompting fears that a hoped-for ban on Zimbabwe's diamonds is unlikely.
The pressure from human rights groups and NGOs across the world is building on the Kimberley Process to ban Zimbabwe from international diamond trade.
The management of Debswana is scheduled to meet the Botswana Mining Workers Union (BMWU) on Friday to discuss the ongoing impasse regarding a 15 percent pay hike that employees are demanding.
Dana Steel Limited, the core investor in Katsina Steel Rolling Company, has concluded plans for the commissioning of its new 180,000 metric tons billets manufacturing plant.
The Ghana Chamber of Mines has charged government to increase its spending on mining communities, considering the improved balance of payment situation.
EXTRACT Resources has found a new, high grade zone of uranium mineralisation on the western side of their Rössing South project, giving the Australian-quoted miner even more reason to believe that it is sitting on a total resource of 500 million pounds of uranium oxide in the Namib.
More imaginative and innovative technology is key to the long-term profitability and sustainability of the mining industry, says Science and Technology Deputy Minister Derek Hanekom.
Members of the Kimberley Process, a global body created to curb trade in diamonds to fund wars, would strive for consensus over Zimbabwe's membership and avoid a vote, the chairman of the organisation said yesterday .
The past week brought new scrutiny of Zimbabwe's human rights record with the deportation of a senior U.N. official sent to investigate torture there, and demands by a coalition of civil society groups that the international community address human rights violations stemming from Zimbabwe's lucrative diamond industry.
Mines Minister Obert Mpofu has shocked international government delegations and rights groups by threatening NGOs and an international diamond review mission, who have reported on widespread human rights abuses at the Chiadzwa diamond fields.
THE desert scenery east of Goanikontes in the Namib Desert would be irreversibly destroyed by a new uranium mine and the 'sense of place' lost forever, experts who undertook an environmental impact assessment (EIA) for the new Etango uranium mine have warned.
THE National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) is picking a fight with Human Settlements Minister Tokyo Sexwale, and yesterday called for his wealth to be nationalised.
Tati Nickel Mining Company (TNMC) general manager, Sebetlela Sebetlela, has called on mining companies to prevent accidents before they happen.
Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe has noted with concern that the mining industry has not transformed as quickly or sufficiently as it could.
LANGER Heinrich yesterday announced expansion plans of US$350 million, nearly N$2,6 billion, to increase uranium oxide production from the current 3,7 million pounds per year to about 10 million pounds per year by 2014.
ANGLOGold Ashanti reported yesterday that production in the third quarter to September rose 5%, but it revised production targets for the year downwards mainly due to safety stoppages at TauTona mine near Carletonville.
WILL the fact that the labour movement is now targeting rich individuals along with the entire mining sector in its calls for nationalisation finally make the government provide some clarity on the issue?
AS members of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme convene in Swakopmund today for a Plenary Meeting that will last until Thursday, various human rights groups calling for the suspension of Zimbabwe from the scheme have dismissed the KPCS as a failure.
A four-member team of senior Ministry of Minerals, Energy and Water Resources officials will join other high profile players in the international diamond industry for a meeting in Namibia next month that analysts say will either make or break the Kimberley Process as an organisation.
The Minister of Mines and Steel Development Mrs. Diezani Alloson-Maduekwe said that speculators and unqualified companies have been holding mining titles to the detriment of the Nigerian Mining sector which she said is on the verge of a renaissance.
ZIMBABWE faces a ban from the world's diamond trade at the Kimberly Process Certification Scheme (KPSC) plenary meeting that opens tomorrow in Namibia where a damning report by a review mission will be tabled. The final report by the review mission led by Liberian Deputy Planning and Development Minister, Kpandel Fayia that visited Chiadzwa, Murowa and River Ranch mines in Zimbabwe last July ...
Kimberley Process (KP) members must act on the overwhelming evidence of Zimbabwe's failure to comply with the minimum requirements of the rough diamond certification scheme, said civil society groups today, ahead of the KP's annual meeting in Namibia.
Illegal diamond dealer and businessman Newman Chiadzwa, who has been posing as Chief Chiadzwa, has apologised to President Mugabe and the nation for peddling falsehoods about activities at the Chiadzwa diamond fields.
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